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William Wade Harris  

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  • Liberian religious leader William Wade Harris was a Liberian prophet who started the Harris Movement in the 1920s along the west coast of Africa. Harris had a strong Africanist ideology and insisted on strict adherence to the Ten Commandments and a strong work ethic. [Source: Encyclopedia of Leadership; Harris, William Wade (c. 1850–1929)]

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